Comments on: How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime https://www.isegoria.net/2017/01/how-japan-has-almost-eradicated-gun-crime/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Calvin https://www.isegoria.net/2017/01/how-japan-has-almost-eradicated-gun-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-2536573 Calvin Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:20:40 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41368#comment-2536573 If you want to live in a safe community in the United States I am told to find a community where the predominant population is Japanese-American. For a long time the Chinese-American was the richest group in America but now supplanted by the Japanese-American ethnicity.

Law-abiding citizens however are not all wealthy citizens.

]]> By: Graham https://www.isegoria.net/2017/01/how-japan-has-almost-eradicated-gun-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-2536561 Graham Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:08:06 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41368#comment-2536561 Indeed. I have no idea if it’s true, but I was always convinced by the idea that Orwell based the Ministry of Truth on his work in the BBC.

It’s not that I would have objected, as Orwell would, to a propaganda tool for the British Empire. But by his day that empire and the BBC for sure had started to turn into the beta version of the Cathedral.

]]> By: Lucklucky https://www.isegoria.net/2017/01/how-japan-has-almost-eradicated-gun-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-2536429 Lucklucky Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:56:31 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41368#comment-2536429 The BBC is not naive. The BBC is not a news organization. Such a thing does not exist, by the way. The BBC is a political organization.

]]> By: Graham https://www.isegoria.net/2017/01/how-japan-has-almost-eradicated-gun-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-2536427 Graham Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:46:37 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41368#comment-2536427 I am reminded of Milton Friedman’s comment when some Scandinavian politician commented that in Scandinavia there was much less poverty than in America- “Well, we also have very little poverty among Scandinavians”.

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